Renaissance Man (1994)
Danny DeVito: Bill Rago
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Quotes
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Bill Rago : Excuse me. Excuse me. I'm looking for the Army Education Center.
[reads referral]
Bill Rago : Captain Tom Murdoch.
MP Directing Traffic : Captain Murdoch's not at the A.E.C. Captain Murdoch's at the A.R.C
Bill Rago : [fumbling to write down directions] A.R.C., A.E.C.
MP Directing Traffic : [Walks up to Rago] You lookin' for Captain Murdoch?
Bill Rago : Yeah.
MP Directing Traffic : The A.E.C. is building 2310. You want building 4475.
Bill Rago : 447...
MP Directing Traffic : Look, here's what you do. You go right here. Take another right at the P.X. Go half a click 'til you see the D.P.T.M. Center. Then take a left.
Bill Rago : [writing furiously] P.M., P.X.
MP Directing Traffic : If you hit the R.F.P.C., you've gone too far.
[returns to post]
Bill Rago : [reviewing notes] D.P.T.M., R.F.P.C.
[pause]
Bill Rago : Can I buy a vowel?
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Bill Rago : It says here that you're from Detroit. What part?
Pvt. Roosevelt Nathaniel Hobbs : The part you drive through doing 85.
Bill Rago : Been there.
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Bill Rago : All I know is, the choices we make dictate the life we lead. "To thine own self be true."
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[Bill writes "oxymoron" on the board]
Pvt. Jamaal Montgomery : You can't say that. That is a diss. I ain't no ox moron.
Bill Rago : No, no, no not ox moron, schmuck; oxymoron.
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[Talking about Shakespeare to the class]
Bill Rago : He wrote plays. Plays...? You know, like TV without the box.
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Bill Rago : Hi. I'm Bill Rago. I've never taught before and you've never thought before. So good luck to all of us.
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Bill Rago : Write... why you're here.
Pvt. Donnie Benitez : This is where they told us to be.
Bill Rago : No, no. Write about the magical twist of fate that prompted you to gravitate towards this institute of imbeciles.
Pvt. Jamaal Mongomerey : [confused] What?
Bill Rago : [very nonchalantly] Write why you joined the Army.
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Bill Rago : Now what's a Double D?
Pvt. Jamaal Montgomery : The whole fort calls us Double Ds.
Pvt. Donnie Benitez : Yeah - dumb as dog shit.
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[Melvin is reading a passage from HAMLET in a monotone voice]
Bill Rago : Melvin, read the rest of it when you come out of the coma.
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[reading Hamlet]
Pvt. Jamaal Mongomerey : Bill, are you gonna translate this?
Bill Rago : Why? It's in English.
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Bill Rago : Hamlet's mama, she's a queen.
Soldiers : Hamlet's mama, she's a queen.
Bill Rago : Buys it in the final scene.
Soldiers : Buys it in the final scene.
Bill Rago : Drinks a glass of funky wine.
Soldiers : Drinks a glass of funky wine.
Bill Rago : Now she's Satan's valentine.
Soldiers : Now she's Satan's valentine.
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[Rago tells Leroy about Leon Battista Alberti, the archetypal "Renaissance Man."]
Bill Rago : But you know what I remember most about him?
Pvt. Jackson Leroy : No.
Bill Rago : They said that he could stand, with his feet together like this, and spring straight over a man's head.
Pvt. Jackson Leroy : [laughs] Really?
Bill Rago : If Leon Battista Alberti couldn't have done that, I wouldn't have remembered a thing about him.
Pvt. Jackson Leroy : So, wait... he was sort of like a smart jock, wasn't he?
Bill Rago : That's right.
Pvt. Jackson Leroy : Now there's an oxymoron, isn't it?
Bill Rago : You got it.
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Florist : Hey, excuse me, sir. I'm lookin' for the base chapel
Bill Rago : Base chapel?
Florist : Yeah.
Bill Rago : Go back around the curve 'til you reach the P.X. Ya hang a right. Ya come to that line A.P.C.s, ya turn left. Go half a click, ya come to the R.F.P.C. building. It's right around the back. Got it?
Florist : [confused] Yeah.
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Bill Rago : GO NAVY.